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By MICHAEL CIEPLY
LOS ANGELES After a long, slow haul, the film rights to Glenn Greenwalds book about Edward J. Snowden and his revelations about electronic surveillance by United States security officials have found a home, at Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Sony said on Wednesday that it had acquired rights to Mr. Greenwalds book, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the U. S. Surveillance State, for the producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. Mr. Wilson and Ms. Broccoli are known for their work on James Bond films like Skyfall and Quantum of Solace, both of which were released by Sony and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Mr. Greenwalds book, whose rights were represented by both the Paradigm agency and Writers House, had been in consideration around Hollywood since the fall, as potential buyers fretted about how to tell a real-life story that is still playing out. Mr. Snowden remains in Russia, and is wanted by the authorities in the United States, where he faces criminal charges. Last month, he retained a Washington lawyer in hopes of reaching a plea deal with federal prosecutors.
Sony is no stranger to the complexities of timely nonfiction, having released both The Social Network, about Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg, and Zero Dark Thirty, about the killing of Osama bin Laden. No Place to Hide was published in the United States by Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt & Company.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/15/business/media/sony-pictures-buys-film-rights-to-book-on-snowden.html
Updated to add:
By LUCY MCCALMONT
Journalist Glenn Greenwald doesnt want to speculate on who will play him and Edward Snowden in a movie, but has already heard of a few possibilities.
The leading names, that Ive seen are Jared Leto for Edward Snowden, who with Im not really familiar. And Edward Norton has been mentioned a lot for me, but thats definitely very low on my list of priorities, Greenwald told CNNs Jake Tapper on The Lead on Wednesday.
Theres all kinds of speculation, Im going to leave that to Twitter, for the most part, he said.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/glenn-greenwald-edward-norton-movie-106690.html
Whisp
(24,096 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)i say David Schwimmer as Greenwald
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)wheniwasincongress
(1,307 posts)Spot on! I think there's another actor GG reminds me of but I can't put my finger on it yet.
m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)perfect choice! lol
ProSense
(116,464 posts)BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)K&R
Strange that you're not getting more kicks and rec'ds on this. I wonder why...
ProSense
(116,464 posts)LOL!
Tarheel_Dem
(31,207 posts)"Thats right. A whistleblower breaks the law to obtain 50,000 documents, he flees the country to escape prosecution and jail time, he hands over these 50,000 pages to a handful of individuals in return for their promise to present these documents to the public, six months pass, and the public gets 1% of these documents. But please, wait. This is not all. Far more interesting and troubling things happen meanwhile.
The main wanna-be reporter begins his relentless pursuit of high dollars in return for for what? In return for exclusive interviews where he would discuss some of this material. In return for a very lucrative book deal where he would expose a few extra pages of these 50,000-page documents. In return for a partnership with and extremely high salary from a Mega Corporation (think 1%) where he would hmmmm, well, it is not very clear: maybe in return for sitting on and never releasing some of these documents, or, releasing a few select pages?
Thats right. The culprit is able to use his role in the whistleblower case, and his de facto ownership of the whistleblowers 50,000-page evidence, to gain huge sums of money, fame, a mega corporate position, book and movie deals yet, making sure that the public would never see more than a few percent of the incriminating evidence.
Of course, secondhand checkbook profiteers tend to be very savvy, able to blow smoke, muddy water, and obscure their real deeds and true personhoods. This particular one is famous for spending years as an ambulance-chasing style attorney, where all he had to do was to write dozens of pages to make cases that were never cases, or make real cases appear as if they never were."
- See more at: http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/12/08/checkbook-journalism-leaking-to-the-highest-bidders/#sthash.esuPxh6S.dpuf
If it's truly in the public interest to know this closely held information, why is GG allowed to profit from it? Afterall, those are government documents. They belong to all of us, right? But we have to pay for the pleasure?
Cha
(295,899 posts)Cha
(295,899 posts)narrative.
I just realized why greenmeanie is so vilely venomous on Hillary.. she brought up that Snowden helped terrorists.
More Snowden leaks - and this time Al Qaeda is the surveillance target (+video)
".. But what caught my eye in one of the unredacted slides was the mention of Al Qaeda in Iraq being a particular target of the NSA's efforts. The slide reads: "Visual Communicator Free application that combines Instant Messaging, Photo-Messaging, and Push2Talk capabilities on a mobile platform. VC used on GPRS or 3G networks." The next five words were what the Times tried and failed to redact: "heavily used in AQI Mosul Network."
The aim as described in the documents is to target mobile phone apps that can give away a target's physical location. The utility of this in tracking terrorists hardly needs to be stated. The document describes a program focusing on clear security interests Al Qaeda in Iraq, now calling itself Al Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) killed thousands in Iraq during the US-led war there and continues to carry out suicide bombings and attacks on civilians there on a weekly basis. ISIS is also deeply involved in the civil war in Syria, and the groups ties to Al Qaeda make it an obvious security concern for the US.."
snip//
"..But his claim that "none of this has anything to do with terrorism" is not reasonable. That's pure nonsense -- as is his attempt to suggest that any revelations of eavesdropping techniques can't do any harm because terrorists already know all about it. Terrorists may know that the US is trying to spy on them as best it can (just as Germany and France know that). But knowing the precise method is another thing altogether."
MOre..
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/Backchannels/2014/0130/More-Snowden-leaks-and-this-time-Al-Qaeda-is-the-surveillance-target-video
ProSense
(116,464 posts)Cha
(295,899 posts)bunnies
(15,859 posts)Number23
(24,544 posts)JI7
(89,173 posts)if/when snowden returns or whatever else happens later.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]"The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it."
Tony Randall, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)[/center][/font][hr]
Pure Fiction.
JI7
(89,173 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)teeny weeny stonehenge.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)wheniwasincongress
(1,307 posts)the film is greatly disliked and criticized by its subject!
Cha
(295,899 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)a pure white light?
JI7
(89,173 posts)it was posted before that greenwald is already saying things to minimize snowden's part in all of this.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)joshcryer
(62,265 posts)Certainly someone can get on this bandwagon for the better good.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Number23
(24,544 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)Glenn Greenwald as Reed Richards
Edward Snowden as the Invisible Kid
Julian Assange as the Human Torch
And of course Vladimir Putin as Ben Grimm.
Yes! The new Fantastic Four!
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]
ProSense
(116,464 posts)Greenwald added, "I'm very happy to be working with Amy Pascal, Doug Belgrad, and the team at Sony Pictures Entertainment who have a successful track record of making thoughtful and nuanced true-life stories that audiences want to see. Growing up, I was heavily influenced by political films, and am excited about the opportunity to be part of a political film that will resonate with today's moviegoers."
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http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sony-pictures-entertainment-options-pulitzer-prize-winner-glenn-greenwalds-book-on-edward-snowden-259246721.html
Cha
(295,899 posts)Gus @Gus_802
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